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Fred Willard, The Master Of Comic Cluelessness, Has Died At 86 by Artsjournal2

His collaborations with Christopher Guest and Guest's mockumentary ensemble were epic. "He played an Air Force colonel in This Is Spinal Tap (1984), then was travel agent/amateur actor Ron Albertson in Waiting for Guffman (1996); dunderheaded announcer Buck Laughlin in Best in Show (2000); Mike LaFontaine, blond-haired manager of the New Main Street Singers, in A Mighty Wind (2003); and smarmy…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM on May 17, 2020

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